The Iran Hostage crisis which began during Jimmy Carter's presidency ended the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Pearl Harbor naval base was established, and Martin Luther King Day was declared a holiday in most states in This Day in History video.n November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran.
Technically speaking, botanists classify the coconut as a drupe, not a nut. A drupe is a fleshy fruit enclosing a hard-shelled stone or seed and composed of an outer, middle, and inner layer. While a nut is a dry fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell.
1 However, the botanical definition of a fruit is quite specific it is the ripened ovary that usually contains the seeds. 2  Not all fruits are sweet and soft, and many are not good to eat at all. 3  Vegetables are considered to be the edible portion of the vegetative plant body stem, roots, leaves, flowers. The seed dispersal vehicle for a flowering plant is the fruit. 2  The word fruit has different meanings to different people. 3  It carries the connotation of a sweet, soft plant product. 4  Thus, fruits are usually regarded as a dessert food, whereas vegetables are usually considered part of the main course meal.